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11. digitatus, Sclir., is a larger insect, more yellow in colour, and 

 has the longitudinal grey streaks in the apical cells of anterior 

 wings more or less broken up, giving a freckled appearance to that 

 portion of the wings. The inferior abdominal appendices of the 

 male are widely furcate ; these parts in //. radiatus being simj^le, 

 with the apex excised. It occurs along with the last, by the 

 Clyde and the Allander. Both species are mixed under digitatus 

 in Stephen's collection. For the nomenclature I am indebted to 

 Mr E. M'Lachlan, the first living authority on the group, who is 

 at present engaged upon a monographic revision of the European 

 Trichoptera. 



31r John A. Harvie-Brown, M.B.O.U., corresponding member, 

 exhibited a fine specimen of the Great Grey Shrike, Lanius 

 excuhitor, which had been killed at Tongue, Sutherlandshire, on 7th 

 Dec, 1875, and was sent to him in the flesh by Mr John Crawford. 



Mr Peter Cameron exhibited specimens oiMacropliya albijmnctata, 

 Fallen, from Perthshire and Aberdeenshire. It is a species new 

 to the British fauna, and has been recorded hitherto only froni 

 Scandinavia, but he had also specimens of it from eastern Germany, 

 where it is in all probability confounded with M. alUcinda. 



Dr Dewar exhibited a pair of live "Wild Cats, Felis catus, Linn., 

 which had been obligingly lent by Mr Henry Martin, Buchanan 

 Street, and remarked that this species was frecjuently met with in 

 Inverness-shire. He said he knew of one gamekeeper who had 

 obtained a dozen specimens in a short time. He had no doubt 

 that the pair exhibited were the real Wild Cat, and not merely 

 specimens of the Domestic Cat run wild. 



Mr Harvie-Brown corroborated Dr Dewar's remarks. He had 

 seen Wild Cats among the bircli woods of Sutherlandshire, where 

 they are not uncommon, and considered that the markings of the 

 fur and the conformation of the head and tail were sufficient to 

 distinguish them from the domestic animal. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. — Note regarding the occurrcncG of the American Bittern, Botaurus 

 lentiginosu.% in May. By I\Ir Jai\ies Lui\isden, F.Z.S. 



At the November meeting of the Society Mr Lumsden placed 

 upon the table a Bittern, which had been killed in Islay in the 

 previous month. At that time he could not confidently state to 

 which species the bird belonged, not having had an opportunity 



